A new study has analyzed one environment-sensitive genic male sterile (EGMS) line that exhibited fertility transition under specified environmental conditions.
Isabel31/07/2020
After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the effects of drought. The tissue succulence engineering method devised for this small flowering plant…
Isabel30/07/2020
Many small regulatory elements, including miRNAs, miRNA binding sites, and cis-acting elements, comprise only 5~24 nucleotides and play important roles in regulating gene expression, transcription and translation, and protein structure, and thus are promising targets for gene function studies and…
Isabel29/07/2020
Scientists have helped find a way to control different plant processes – such as when they grow – using nothing but coloured light.
Isabel28/07/2020
A research team’s model to explain photosynthesis lays out the next challenging phase of research on how green plants transform light energy into chemical energy
Isabel27/07/2020